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Experiments & Pragmatic Processing Each of the critics reviewed some of the movies. – evidence for EIs, with different response choices - no evidence of EIs but not all ? Depending on the study: Worry: How much do methodologies themselves influence judg e ments? Worry: Are we adequately testing the influence of methodologies on our data? Case Study: (Embedded) Implicatures Previous Limitation: Lack of Subjects and Money Crowd-sourcing addresses both problems

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A potential check on exuberance Undergraduates may be WEIRD*, but crowdsourcing engenders its own weirdness – High evaluation apprehension – Uncontrolled backgrounds, skillsets, focus levels – Unknown motivations Ignorance does not necessarily mean diversity – This requires study if we rely on such participants more * Heinrich et al. (2010) The Weirdest People in the World? BBS

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Acknowledgments Thanks Jaye Padgett and to the attendees of two Semantics Lab presentations and the XPRAG conference for their comments, to the HUGRA committee for their generous award and support, and thanks to Rosie Wilson-Briggs for stimuli construction.